Announcing the launch of a brand-new series of videos created for kids in grades K-2 by WonderGrove Kids, in collaboration with Homegrown National Park! These engaging and educational videos focus on the importance of creating habitats for birds, making it easy and fun for young children to learn how they can help nature right in […]
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The Keystone Roll-Out Garden™ is a new collaboration with Ecoplantia featuring four keystone species and four powerful natives that pollinators thrive on. For each template that is sold, a portion of the proceeds are donated to Homegrown National Park®. Professionally designed native plant gardens printed onto bio-degradable paper and shipped with ALL of the actual plants!
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We’re thrilled that Homegrown National Park was recently featured on WGN News in Chicago! In a story highlighting the growing movement among Chicago area residents to shrink their lawns and embrace native plants, we were honored to share how this simple yet impactful shift is helping to bring nature back to the city. By transforming
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Celebrating Your Native Planting Journeys We’re excited to share some snapshots of the HNP Fireflies’ amazing native plant habitats! Your homegrown gardens are bursting with beauty and biodiversity, and we can’t get enough of them. Each of you is out there turning your yards into vibrant ecosystems, and it’s truly inspiring. So, let’s applaud these
Universities Leading the Way with Healthier Landscapes By Grant Jensen and Re:wild Your Campus Est. Read Time: 7 minutes Learn how campuses are converting to native ecosystems and organic land care, and how you can get involved with your campus or alma mater. Find these universities on the Homegrown National Park Biodiversity Map! Native
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By Grace Hassler and Grant Jensen Est. Read Time: 7 minutes Backyard Bounty: A top contributor to the Homegrown National Park Biodiversity Map™. Learn why native landscaping is not only sound from an ecological perspective, but from a business perspective as well. Native landscapers have so much opportunity to become community influencers! Also find options for
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Who says native plants can’t be used in formal gardening?! Let’s hear a 🙌 for longtime HNP supporter, Lynn O’Shaughnessy in Howell, Michigan who put her incredible project on the HNP Biodiversity Map. Besides the ground prep, Lynn completed this entire project herself. “The best part of this whole journey was to learn how powerful
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Thanks to WDTN in Ohio for featuring the native habitat of Brandon Hough, our Executive Director! https://homegrownnationalpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Brandon-Hough-News-Story-Landscape.mp4 “It used to be all grass just three years ago. It’s now — it’s native prairie for all the native wildflowers and native grasses that would have been in Ohio before,” says Brandon Hough, as he looks over
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Congratulations to longtime HNP supporter Christian Cooper, who won the award for Outstanding Daytime Personality for hosting the National Geographic Wild series, “Extraordinary Birder”. What an extraordinary achievement for an extraordinary human! Container Gardening with Keystone Native Plants You might recognize Christian from our features about his impressive rooftop garden in New York. This native container
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It really works! For years now, I have been claiming that restoration works, that nature is wonderfully resilient, and that, with a little help, she can rebuild biodiversity throughout human-dominated landscapes whenever she is given half a chance. Tallamy Residence What has happened on the Tallamy property in southeast Pennsylvania over the past two decades
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